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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 376 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #57 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4813 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #49 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #236 / 382
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 568 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #182 / 349
  • Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #31 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 2
Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #19 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 4
120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #65 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 4
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #182 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1854 / 3689
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3165 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #835 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2620 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 2
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #74 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #383 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #74 / 419
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #311 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #23 / 151
  • Number of attempts: 5
The Cake is a Lie - 1365 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #183 / 532
  • Number of attempts: 1
Compile C - 430 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #72 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12996 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1333 / 3739
  • Number of attempts: 4
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